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Nora Titone talks to Barbara Bogaev about the 19th Century actors Edwin Booth and his brother John Wilkes Booth, the latter known best today as the man who assassinated Abraham Lincoln in 1865.
Podcast. Barbara Bogaev talks about the editing of Shakespeare’s plays when performed with Aili Huber, co-author with Dr. Toby Malone of Cutting Plays for Performance: A Practical and Accessible Guide.
Andrew McConnell Stott is interviewed by Barbara Bogaev to discuss his new book, What Blest Genius?: The Jubilee that Made Shakespeare, looking at David Garrick’s 1769 Shakespeare Jubilee in...
Barbara Bogaev interviews Stuart Kells (author of Shakespeare’s Library) and Jason Scott-Warren (author of Shakespeare’s First Reader) to discuss how people read, acquired, and collected books in...
Podcast. Barbara Bogaev talks to Lolita Chakrabarti about bringing Maggie O’Farrell’s bestselling novel Hamnet, about Shakespeare’s son, to the stage.
In the second of two interviews about his career and Shakespeare, Sir Derek Jacobi talks about the highs and lows from collaborating with Kenneth Branagh and performing alongside Laurence Olivier to being...
Podcast. Barbara Bogaev talks to composer John Adams about his new two-act opera based on Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra.
Barbara Bogaev interviews Ruth Goodman about her new book, ‘How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England: A Guide for Knaves, Fools, Harlots, Cuckolds, Drunkards, Liars, Thieves, and Braggarts’.
Podcast. Pamela Hutchinson talks to Barbara Bogaev about the life and career of actress Asta Nielsen and her 1921 film version of Hamlet (qv), which depicted the title character as a princess.
Barbara Bogaev interviews Mark Haddon about his novel The Porpoise, which reinterprets Shakespeare’s Pericles. Haddon discusses what drew him to the play, including the fact that he felt less intimidated...
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